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Manual breve y compendioso, para empensar a aprender lengua zapoteca y administrar en caso de necessidad.

by: Martínez, Alonso; Berendt, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1817-1878; Melgar, José Maria

Publication date: 1871

Topics: Confession, Manuscripts, Mexican, Manuscripts, Zapotec, Zapotec language, Zapotec language, Indian linguistics, Manuscripts, Imprint 1871, Imprint 1872

Publisher: [Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave, Mexico) : s.n.]

Collection: jcbindigenous; JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana

Contributor: John Carter Brown Library

Language: Spanish; Zapotec

Item Size: 128.3M

Ms. codex

Manuscript transcription, written in red and black ink, of an original Zapotec language mission manual written in 1633 in the possession of don José Maria Melgar of Vera Cruz, Mexico in 1872. The transcription was made for John Carter Brown by the Mayan scholar C. Hermann Berendt

"Advertencia", p. [3], 1st count, describes the original manuscript and the mode of presentation and is dated and signed: Veracruz, enero 22 de 1871 Dr. C. Hermann Berendt

Included are the ten commandments, a confessional guide, and grammatical texts and tables

Dated and signed on p. 74: Cotejado Nueva York abril 21 de 1872. Dr. C. Hermann Berendt

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675

John Carter Brown Library half bound in 19th century red morocco with marbled boards